Webinars
Live webinars are offered monthly and will be available on-demand following each event. Webinars are an exclusive member benefit! Registration and on-demand access is always FREE to CodingIntel members. Have a suggestion for a webinar topic? Email us using the contact link at the bottom of this page.
Assuring Compliance for Behavioral Health Services | Webinar
Event Date: August 15th, 2024
Join us for a comprehensive webinar on assuring compliance for behavioral health services. We will explore essential documentation requirements and coding standards, understand common denial reasons, and learn proactive steps to mitigate risk effectively. Elevate your practice’s compliance standards and ensure proper documentation and coding for revenue integrity
Read MoreIRE Inpatient Determinations: Case Studies | Webinar
Event Date: August 13th, 2024
Independent Review Entities review inpatient records for diagnostic accuracy and DRG determinations. This case-study focused webinar will describe important ICD-10-CM Guidelines that establish the rules for these decisions.
Read More2025 CMS Proposed Physician Rule | Webinar
Recorded July 25th, 2024
CMS released its 2025 Proposed Physician Fee Schedule rule on July 10, and it’s packed with coding policy proposals. The conversion factor is always bad news. But, there is good news too.
Read MoreFive Novel Reimbursement Opportunities – and More to Boost Your Practice’s Payments | Webinar
Recorded: June 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have approved five new payment opportunities for 2024 – just the beginning of what promises to be a significant shift in the reimbursement landscape for medical practices.
Read MoreShared Services: CPT and CMS Rules | Webinar
Recorded May 16th, 2024
Shared services are E/M services jointly performed by a physician and non-physician practitioner in a facility setting. The service is reported under the National Provider Identifier (NPI) of the practitioner who performs the substantive portion of the service. The substantive portion of the service can be determined by time or medical decision making (MDM).
Read MorePreventive Medicine, Wellness Visits and Problem-Oriented Visits | Webinar
Recorded April 18th, 2024
Two for the price of one? Or, double-billing? There are varying opinions about when the documentation supports adding a problem-oriented visit to a CPT preventive service or a Medicare wellness visit. This webinar provides a framework for determining if documentation shows the additional work that was done. We’ll review the examples from the CPT Assistant for guidance (including using time) and discuss what to do about copy/paste.
Read MoreHome and Nursing Facility Category of Code Rules | Webinar
Recorded March 21st, 2024
This webinar will explain the rules for using Evaluation and Management (E/M) services (E/M) in home and residence locations and nursing and skilled nursing facilities. This includes CMS regulations for nursing facility services. It will discuss reporting multiple E/M services when one of the visits is in a nursing facility. It will describe the correct category of code for…
Read MoreE&M: Key up the Focus to Complexity and Risk
Recorded February 15. 2024
Prior to the new E&M guidelines, AMA CPT did not reference medical necessity. The Claims Process Manual was our main point of reference for the statement Medical necessity is the overarching determining factor. While 2021 Documentation Guidelines uses 2 key components of time and MDM, the guidelines came armed with references of medical necessity littered throughout inferring that maybe it’s NOT always just 2 of the 3 key components.
Read More2024 Reimbursement Reality | Webinar
Recorded January 18, 2024
Discover how shifts in the changing healthcare reimbursement landscape will impact your medical practice in 2024 – and beyond. In this fast-paced presentation, national speaker, trainer, and author Elizabeth Woodcock, DrPH, MBA, FACMPE, CPC highlights emerging trends that can pose both opportunities and threats to your practice in the coming year.
Read MoreAnnual CPT® Changes | Webinar
Recorded December 21, 2023
The American Medical Association’s 2024 update to the CPT® Manual is here, with codes and coding changes effective 1-1-2024. This webinar will describe coding changes, including revised time for E/M office visit codes, spinal tethering procedures, phrenic neurostimulator systems, skull-mounted cranial neurostimulator systems, intraoperative cardiac ultrasound procedures and vaccines for COVID-19 and RSV. Have your CPT® book handy so you can take notes, and join us for the webinar.
Read MoreCMS’s Final Physician Fee Schedule Rule for 2024 | Webinar
Recorded November 30, 2023
CMS’s 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule serves as its roadmap and policy statement for medical practices. Hear what CMS decided about shared services for 2024, implementation of G2211, new HCPCS codes and rules for group caregiver training, for assessment of Social Determinants of Health, telehealth changes, and more.
Read MoreE/M Services: High Volume, High Risk | Webinar
Recorded October 19, 2023
According to CMS, E/M services comprise 40% of allowed charges in the physician fee schedule, 20% office visits and 20% other E/M services. Medicare’s expense is medical practice revenue, with the income from some primary care practices comprising 70% or more of total charges. To protect the organization, compliance professionals can focus on four components of E/M:
Read MoreA Conversation with Two Auditors: Lessons Learned about MDM | Webinar
Recorded September 28, 2023
Medical practices can prepare for audits, improve documentation and decrease compliance risk by sharpening their focus on high-risk areas, high volume services, and/or identifying confusing areas of MDM and developing and following consistent guidelines from appropriate resources. Join Pam D’Apuzzo, CPC, ACS-EM, ACS-MS, CPMA and Debra Rossi, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPMA of VMG Health and me for a lively and informative discussion.
Read MoreHCC Transition from V24 to V28 | Webinar
Recorded July 20, 2023
CMS is transitioning risk coding from the 2020 V24 model to V28 beginning in 2024. This webinar will provide an overview of HCC coding, its purpose and methodology. We’ll describe the changes and enumerate some of the key differences in coefficients for commonly used conditions between V24 and V28. And finally, learning from OIG audits of Medicare Advantage Organizations and HCC coding, identify diagnosis codes that are frequently incorrectly reported.
Read MoreReporting the Global Surgical Package | Webinar
Recorded June 15, 2023
The global surgical package provides a single payment for services normally performed before, during and after a procedure. This webinar will review both CPT and CMS rules and explain what services are included in the payment and what services may be reported separately.
Read MoreCPT Coding for Bronchoscopy Procedures | Webinar
Recorded May 18, 2023
Join us for a CPT focused webinar on all things bronchoscopy! This webinar will describe coding for bronchoscopy coding, with and without biopsy, with ultrasound guidance, and with procedures. It includes coding by the number of lobes visualized for certain procedures. There are three case studies to illustrate the coding rules for these procedures.
Read MoreCoding for Hospital Services | Webinar
Recorded April 20, 2023
First, CPT® updated their E/M code set. Then, CMS interpreted the updates and applied their own reimbursement rules to the code set. This webinar will summarize CPT® rules and CMS’s February 2023 transmittal that addresses inpatient and observation billing by the admitting and consulting physicians, admission to inpatient status following observation care, and multiple visits in a single day. The webinar will discuss when coding instruction is the same for CPT® and CMS and when it varies.
Read MoreCode Prolonged Services with Confidence | Webinar
Recorded March 16, 2023
Prolonged care coding has new challenges in 2023. There are both CPT® codes and HCPCS codes. The two code sets use different time thresholds. For some prolonged care services, CMS is allowing work done on a day prior to the primary visit and days after the visit, and some allow work done on days after the visit. This webinar will describe the coding rules for each set of prolonged care codes, and discuss the CPT/CMS variance in non-face-to-face prolonged care.
Read MoreCMS Teaching Physician Rules Update | Webinar
Recorded February 16, 2023
The teaching physician rules provide payment to an attending physician for services performed jointly by an attending and a resident. The required participation and documentation of the attending varies for E/M services, critical care, psychiatry and procedures. This webinar will review the basics of the CMS rules and the specific participation and documentation requirements for each type of service. The presentation will also include a description of the waivers in place during the PHE.
Read MoreICD-10-CM: 2023 Coding and Reporting Guidelines | Webinar
Recorded October 20, 2022
Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) update the ICD-10 Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. This year is no exception. The Guidelines are approved each year by the 4 organizations, that make up Cooperating parties. They are the American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Health Information (AHIMA), as well as the CMS, and the NCVHS.
Read More2023 E/M Guidelines for Hospital, Nursing Facility, Home and Residence Services | Webinar
Recorded September 22, 2022
As expected, the AMA has revised the definitions and guidelines for hospital and other E/M services, including ED visits, nursing facility services, home services, and domiciliary care codes. They extended the documentation framework in place for office visits to these codes. They also deleted twenty-five codes. Coding for prolonged care services gets…
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